Monday, November 03, 2014

At independence, there were 888 Tamil schools in Malaysia. Today, there are 523 Tamil schools more than 100,000 students. According to the National Blueprint For Education, the proportion of Indian students enrolled in SJKT had increased from 47% in 2000 to 56% in 2011.

Chinese schools where irrespective of one being a Cantonese, Hokkien, Teochew or Hakka, their Chinese education remains in Mandarin. Their schools remains as "Chinese" schools. By contrast, for Indians there is no such thing called "Indian" schools. All Indian schools in Malaysia are in fact Tamil schools. Just like the Chinese, the Indians also belong to various sub-group such as Tamil, Malayalee, Telugu, Punjabi to name a few. However unlike the Chinese, each Indian subgroup has its own distint spoken and written language. Thus Tamil schools are in fact the exclusive educational domain for the Tamils. The sad truth is that other Indian sub-group has almost no affinity or emotional attachment with Tamil schools or Tamil education.

Approximately 7% of Malaysia's population are Indians, out of which almost 70% are Tamils. The Tamil language is one of the oldest surviving language in the world and within it is interwoven the rich Tamil culture, philosophy, religion and science. Unfortunately in Malaysia, Tamil schools and Tamil education has become the Cinderella of Malaysian education. Tamil schools face a host of depressing problems. One major problem facing Tamil schools are that most of the Tamil schools remain in rural areas although there has been a shift and migration of Indians from rural areas. In rural areas, Tamil schools have seen dwindling in students enrolment and face the reality of closure while in urban areas there is a real and growing demand for Tamil schools. Another sad facet of Tamil schools are that many of these schools lack in basic facilities such as proper classrooms, proper toilets, school fields, school hall and unlikely to have computer labs, science labs or even library ore resource rooms. In fact, it is said that some schools don't even have a canteen. All this creates a non condusive learning environment which has tremendous effect on the students.

Despite the government claiming that millions have been given to Tamil schools, no one knows if indeed the allocation was released or how was it disbursed or utilised. In 2012, the government allocated RM100 million for some 523 Tamil schools which averages about RM191,204.59 per Tamil school. It may sound like a generous and magnimanious allocation by the government but when you take into account the condition of Tamil schools and its problems, the amount allocated is just a drop in the ocean.

The Chinese just like the Jews are recognised as a community more than other communities who places a premium on education. It is deeply engrained within them that education is the salvation to a better future. Thus the Chinese have long recognised that the survival of Chinese schools depends on the Chinese community. The Chinese community supports Chinese education with an almost religious fervour and a passionate zeal.

The whole Chinese community is supportive of Chinese education. Of course it also helps when big Chinese corporation and Chinese businesses take great pride in supporting Chinese education. Just watch the Chinese developers who donate land for construction of Chinese schools. Still, it is the ordinary Chinese middle-class, hawkers and petty traders who never shy away from assisting Chinese schools. Local Chinese businesses can be relied on to support the local Chinese school and the Chinese school can be assured that the local Chinese hawkers and petty traders will always support with a generous donation without any question asked never-mind his political affiliation. I once attended a Chinese wedding ceremony where midway through the ceremony the master of ceremony announced that the happy couple has decided to give away all the Ang-pows received to their former alma-mater for which the happy couple received a thunderous applause prompting one inevibreated relative who sprang and announced a gift of a seven nights fully paid holiday to Koh Samui.

Sadly, unlike the Chinese, the Indians see Tamil education the solely as the Tamil community's duty. A Malayalee, a Telugu, a Sindhi, a Punjabi or an Indian Muslim's children is almost unlikely to be schooled in a Tamil school. Thus, they unlike the Tamils are hardly ever going to have any affinity or an emotional attachment to the cause of Tamil education or Tamil schools. Thus, tamil schools can only depend and rely on their very own Tamil community.

Unlike the Chinese hawker or petty trader who will donate to Chinese schools with no question asked, my experience withy the Tamil community is that one will need to listen to all the justification and reluctance on why they are unwilling to contribute towards Tamil schools. Sometime its really sad to see the Tamil community not supportive of their very own Tamil education. The local Indian businesses are hardly generous and the professional are more likely to be a tight skint. The Malayalees or Punjabis never mind they are still Indians would more likely be evasive from supporting with a financial donation.

The sad truth is that unless the Tamil community is not willing to help Tamil schools and Tamil education, then for certain Tamil education will see a bleak future. Forget about relying on the government. The Tamil community should take charge. Each and every Tamil can make a change. How many packets of cigarettes do you smoke in a month ? How giving up smoking and donating the money to a Tamil school. How much money do you spend on liquor at your local coffee-shop ? What about making a fixed monthly contribution to the Tamil school ? How about a group of ten Indians pledging say RM100 each month to a Tamil school or helping start a mini library in school. Even, Indian restaurants can adopt a Tamil school by placing a donation box near the cash register with all the money collected channelled to a Tamil school.

Lastly, whether one is a Malayalee or a Telugu or a Punjabi, you are still an Indian and as an Indian you must also help Tamil schools. Tamil education and Tamil schools must be recognised as being part of an Indian, not just belonging to Tamils.

So, maybe we all can in our little way individually or come together and help Tamil schools. Yes, it is Tamil school and Tamil education, but if you call yourself an Indian,come as an Indian and help Tamil schools and Tamil education.

Monday, November 18, 2013

Indonesia’s Graftbusters Battle the Establishment

An inspector general of Indonesian
police had just withstood eight hours of interrogation on the night of
October 5, last year at the Jakarta headquarters of Indonesia’s
anti-corruption agency when a commotion erupted outside.

Investigators from the Corruption
Eradication Commission, known by its Indonesian initials KPK, had
accused Djoko Susilo of amassing land, cars, mansions and stacks of
cash. His arrest was an unprecedented strike against a police force with
a long-held reputation for graft in a country routinely ranked as among
the most corrupt in the world. The counter punch came swiftly. At about
9 p.m. that night, dozens of policemen descended upon the KPK
headquarters with one demand: hand over Novel Baswedan, 36, the
celebrated investigator who had led the interrogation of Djoko.

But the police didn’t reckon on a remarkable show of public support.

Hundreds of protesters, lawyers,
activists and journalists soon arrived to barricade the entrance of the
KPK building, summoned by text messages from an anonymous KPK official.
After a three-hour standoff, the police squadron left. Nearly a year
later, on Sept. 3, Djoko was sentenced to 10 years in prison and the
state seized $10.4 million of his assets.

It was a narrow escape for Novel,
himself a former policeman and now lionized as “supercop” by Indonesian
media, and once again, also for the anti-corruption agency. Since its
establishment in 2002, the KPK has become, contrary to all expectations,
a fiercely independent, resilient, popular and successful institution
that is a constant thorn in the side of Indonesia’s establishment.

Reuters spent six months examining the
KPK and their campaign against corruption, gaining rare access to the
agency and interviewing senior police officials, politicians, business
leaders, members of Yudhoyono’s inner circle and the president himself.

The KPK has won guilty verdicts in all
236 cases it has fought. Its arrests of cabinet ministers,
parliamentarians, central bankers, CEOs, a judge and even a former
beauty queen have exposed how widespread and systemic corruption is in
Indonesia. It has certainly made big-ticket abuses of power far riskier
in Indonesia.

But its success is becoming more costly.
Reuters also found an overwhelmed and underfunded agency that faces
mounting opposition from parliament, police and the presidency. The
KPK’s popularity has so far been its most effective buffer against such
attacks, especially in the run-up to next year’s parliamentary and
presidential elections. Any attempt to eviscerate the commission would
almost certainly cost votes.

“The KPK’s only friend is the public,”
says Dadang Trisasongko, secretary general of the Indonesian

chapter of
global corruption watchdog Transparency International.

The international business community is
watching this tussle closely. Executives surveyed in the World Economic
Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2011-12 said corruption remained
“the most problematic factor for doing business” in Indonesia.

The World Bank has said corruption
across the world costs $1 trillion. No one has done a thorough study of
the costs in Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most populous country and one
of the hottest emerging markets with an economic growth rate of 6
percent. The Anti-Corruption Studies Center at Gadjah Mada University in
Yogyakarta put the losses to the state at $1 billion over the past five
years alone.

The KPK has enemies because it is both
powerful and effective. Over a third of the agency’s 385 arrests since
its inception in 2002 have been of politicians. The KPK’s powers are
considerable: it can slap travel bans on suspects, go on asset-seizing
sprees to collect evidence and — the secret behind many high-profile KPK
arrests — wiretap conversations without a warrant.

But the KPK started small after its
creation in 2002. Early targets were mainly mid-level officials,
regional leaders and businessmen. That began to change when Yudhoyono
took office in 2004, vowing to deliver “shock therapy” to a
graft-riddled system. The KPK moved quickly to prosecute several major
graft cases, homing in on politicians.

In 2008, the agency ensnared the first
member of Yudhoyono’s inner circle: Aulia Pohan, a former deputy central
bank governor whose daughter is married to the president’s oldest son.
Aulia was arrested with three other deputies after former central bank
governor Burhanuddin Abdullah was convicted and jailed for five years
for embezzling $10 million. Aulia was sentenced to four years in prison
on charges in the alleged embezzlement scheme, which according to the
prosecution, aimed to bribe lawmakers to influence legislation affecting
Bank Indonesia.

By the time Yudhoyono ran for reelection
in 2009, the agency had expanded from a staff of 100 to nearly 400,
with thousands more applying for jobs.

Among them was Novel Baswedan, who
joined the agency in 2007 after 10 years with the national police, where
he had specialized in corruption cases. Novel, the grandson of noted
Indonesian freedom fighter and one its first diplomats A. R. Novel, said
he decided on a career in police work “in order to do good deeds.” In
his first case at the KPK in 2008, Novel nabbed the mayor of the
Sumatran city of Medan for misuse of the city budget. The mayor,
Abdillah, was given a five-year prison sentence.

The agents were having a big impact and
capturing the public imagination. For the first time in years, Indonesia
fared better on Transparency International’s country rankings on
corruption perception, leaping to 111th place from 133rd over five
years. And that’s when the KPK was thrown on the defensive.

Many of its agents came from the
national police, which is also empowered to investigate corruption cases
but is itself riddled with corruption, Novel told Reuters in his first
interview with the media. “There is a culture of corruption that is so
entrenched that it happens everywhere in the police.”

In 2009, the KPK began investigating a
top police detective, Susno Duadji, for allegedly accepting a bribe.
Susno famously mocked the agency for taking on the police: “How can a
gecko hope to defeat a crocodile?” The remark came back to haunt him. He
is serving a three-and-half year jail sentence for corruption and abuse
of power.

Five months later, police arrested two
KPK commissioners for extortion and bribery. The charges were dropped
after nationwide street protests and a Facebook campaign that gathered
one million supporters. The KPK also released wiretap recordings of
telephone conversations, which a court later determined showed police
officials conspiring to undermine the KPK. The agency came under further
pressure later that year when its chairman Antasari Azhar was arrested
for masterminding the murder of a Jakarta businessman. Antasari, who
pleaded innocent, is serving 18 years in prison. The Supreme Court
denied his appeal.

Chandra Hamzah, one of the two
commissioners arrested in 2009 and now a lawyer in Jakarta, said that
period was a defining moment for the KPK. “If the police had been
successful in pushing us out then, the KPK would have crumbled. They
came very close to doing that.”

A
student covers her mouth with tape during an Anti-Corruption Day rally
in Jakarta in this December 9, 2009 file photo. (Reuters
Photo/Beawiharta)

Accountable only to God

The KPK has continued to zero in on
parliament and the police, the two most corrupt institutions in
Indonesia, according to Transparency International. Over the past two
years, the agency has also targeted senior politicians in Yudhoyono’s
Democratic Party.

Former sports minister Andi
Mallarangeng — once a rising star in Indonesian politics — and party
chairman Anas Urbaningrum have been declared suspects in a graft case
involving construction of a sports stadium in Hambalang, West Java. The
KPK accused the two of taking kickbacks during the tendering process.
Andi was arrested in October on charges of abuse of authority and
causing state losses. Anas has not been charged in the ongoing
investigation. They both deny any wrongdoing in the case, which the
Supreme Audit Agency in September estimated caused state losses of
around $41 million.

The party’s former treasurer, Muhammad
Nazaruddin, was sentenced to seven years in jail in January for
accepting bribes linked to the construction of an athletes village for
the Southeast Asia Games in Sumatra. Angelina Sondakh, a lawmaker for
Yudhoyono’s Democratic Party and a former Miss Indonesia, was sentenced
in January to 4.5 years in prison for corruption and abuse of power in
the same case.

In August, the chairman of Indonesia’s
energy regulator SKKMigas, Rudi Rubiandini was detained for questioning
on suspicion of accepting a bribe after investigators said they caught
him taking $400,000 in cash and a BMW motorcycle from an oil company
official. The KPK said he has not been officially charged and the
investigation continues. The Anti-Corruption Court in November began
hearing the case against the oil company official.

Yudhoyono now seldom speaks out in favor
of the agency he once championed. A week after the father of his
daughter-in-law was convicted of embezzlement in June 2009, Yudhoyono
echoed other politicians who claimed the KPK had grown too powerful: he
described it as “accountable only to God.”

At his state of the nation address in
August, delivered just three days after the KPK arrested the energy
regulator, Yudhoyono gave corruption only a passing mention.

Presidential spokesman Julian Pasha told
Reuters Yudhoyono’s support for the KPK has never wavered. “The way of
his thinking on the KPK is still the same. His commitment to support the
KPK actually never changed.”

In early October, the KPK went after
what the government calls the “judicial mafia” – a nexus that links
police, prosecutors, fixers and judges that purportedly puts a price on
practically anything in the legal system. The agency shocked even
Indonesians jaded by the country’s epic corruption scandals by arresting
Akil Mochtar, the chief justice of the Constitutional Court and seizing
almost $260,000 in cash. The KPK said the money came from bribes to rig
a court ruling over a disputed local election. Akil has not yet been
officially charged, a KPK spokesman said.

The widening investigation, which has
led to the arrest of a half-dozen other figures but no other judges so
far, is likely to become an issue in next year’s elections. The
constitutional court was set up in 1999 after the long-ruling
authoritarian president Suharto was toppled from power as part of
reforms intended to free courts from political interference. Much of its
work involves ruling on disputed local elections. The landmark
decentralization measures of 2001 gave significant powers to local
politicians making the stakes in local elections much higher.

Yudhoyono told Reuters earlier this year
corruption has proven harder to eradicate than he had thought. “I am
still not satisfied,” he said. “I am frustrated, I am angry, I am
annoyed.” He denied, however, that it had risen in his nearly nine years
in office. In Transparency International’s latest rankings, however,
Indonesia has slipped back to 118th place, putting Southeast Asia’s
biggest economy alongside Egypt, Ecuador and Madagascar.

A
policeman guards as a protester shouts slogans outside the KPK building
in Jakarta November 11, 2013. (Reuters Photo/Beawiharta)

Budget increase?

The KPK’s 75 investigators must sift
through thousands of public complaints each year to select the roughly
70 or so cases it can realistically pursue. The agency’s mandate is to
investigate cases of Rp 1 billion ($88,000) and above, so investigators
choose the most high-profile corruption cases in the hope it will be
enough to deter others.

Its high conviction rate might be the
envy of its counterparts elsewhere in Asia, but it’s only a drop in the
bucket in Indonesia, where graft is simply part of the fabric of
everyday life — from backhanders to traffic policemen to “facilitation
payments” to get anything done in the country’s bloated bureaucracy. The
police and attorney general’s office handle most of the routine graft
cases.

The agency is hoping for a giant
increase in its budget for an ambitious expansion into provinces, where
government funds and international investment has soared under
decentralization. This, however, depends on approval by Indonesia’s
politicians, who have been trying to curb the KPK’s reach, not expand
it.

“As it stands now, the KPK is a law unto
itself,” said lawmaker Desmond Mahesa, who has led calls in a
parliamentary commission to better regulate the KPK and freeze its
budget. “We have to tighten our grip and keep an eye on them,” he told
Reuters.

Parliament has already tried to do this.
In 2009, when the KPK was getting besieged by the police, Indonesia’s
Minister for Communication and Information Tifatul Sembiring proposed
amending the country’s anti-corruption legislation to limit the KPK’s
wire-tapping powers. The plan was shelved amid a public backlash.

“If not for public pressure, we would
have gone ahead,” says opposition lawmaker Eva Kusuma Sundari. Pro-KPK
parliamentarians such as herself do exist, but are “in the minority,”
she adds.

Some 700 employees are shoe-horned into
the eight-story former bank building designed for half that number. Most
of its windowless parking garage has been converted into office space.
Outside, tucked between cargo containers used to store mountains of
paperwork, are 12 holding cells for suspects considered a flight-risk.
Current inmates include a former deputy central bank governor.

In 2008, the Ministry of Finance
earmarked Rp 225 billion ($19.8 million) to build a new KPK headquarters
with space for up to 1,300 staff. Parliament stalled on approving it.
To shame their politicians, Indonesians launched a fundraising campaign
called “Coins for the KPK,” led by a local NGO, Indonesia Corruption
Watch. Civic groups and members of the public set up stalls across
Jakarta and collected over $36,000. They even received bags of bricks
and cement. Parliament finally approved the allocation in October 2012.

KPK Commissioner Adnan Pandu Praja told
Reuters he wants the agency’s budget to be fixed at 0.5 percent of the
national budget — similar to Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against
Corruption on which the KPK is modeled — to avoid the annual tussles
with lawmakers. Based on the 2013 national budget, that would mean
nearly a 15-fold increase to Rp 8.6 trillion ($745 million) from its
current Rp 600 billion budget.

Indonesian
police general Djoko Susilo looks to his lawyer during the delivery of
his verdict at a courtroom in Jakarta in this September 3, 2013 file
photo. (Reuters Photo/Beawiharta)

‘Like husband and wife’

While politicians have been mostly in
the KPK’s cross-hairs, its arrest last year of Insp. Gen. Djoko Susilo
was significant: he was the first senior police officer to be arrested
while on active duty. The KPK accused him of embezzling $3 million in
the purchase of driving simulators while he headed the National Police
Traffic Corps.

His interrogation at KPK headquarters on
Oct. 5 of last year came amid renewed tensions between the agency and
the police, who had earlier ordered the recall of more than a dozen
officers on loan to the agency — including Novel Baswedan, Djoko’s chief
interrogator. Yudhoyono later ordered the National Police to withdraw
the recall orders.

To ensure their future independence,
Novel and other seconded police have since left the force to become
full-time KPK staff. Novel says some former police colleagues regard him
as a traitor.

He said was not surprised when police
tried to arrest him at KPK headquarters while he was interrogating
Djoko. “On that day, I was particularly anticipating a threat [The
charges related to a 2004 assault case in which Novel had already been
cleared of any wrongdoing]. Of course, I was worried for my life,” said
Novel, the father of four girls ages 2-9. He and two other KPK agents
said they have received death threats via SMS, but he declined to give
further details.

The police downplay any rift. “We regard
the KPK as one of our partners in law-enforcement,” said Agus Rianto,
deputy spokesperson for the national police. “We are like husband and
wife. Even spouses clash sometimes, don’t they?”

Monday, September 02, 2013

WHY ARE THE AFRICANS NOT BEINGAPPREHENDED ?

Most of
today’s newspapers front paged news about the nation’s biggest ever operation
to flush out unwanted foreigners. Looking at the photographs, it would seem
that the operation, code named Ops 6P Bersepadu where 135,000 personnel from
the Immigration Department, Police, Armed Forces, RELA, Civil Defence, National
Registration Department and local councils is only focussed on apprehending
Indonesian and Bangladeshi illegal immigrants.

My
question and maybe the rest of Malaysians would want to know, why Africans are
not being apprehended. Don’t tell me the authorities do not know of the African
colonies in Puchong, Nilai, Cyberjaya, Kepong, Subang and many other places.
Folks, we can also do our part. Please assist the authorities by emailing or
telephoning the authorities of the African hangouts, hideouts and colonies to
enable the authorities to flush the illegal and unwanted Africans out. Consider
this a national service.

By the
way, here are some statistics about the
Africans in Malaysia.

In 2012,
79,351 Africans entered the country and 25, 467 student visas were given. (
what happened to the rest ? Have they left the country or are they immigration
offenders now ? What about the students ? Any checks done to find out if they
are still enrolled as students orthey
have gone AWOL?.

From
Borneo post December 11, 2011

The then
Deputy Home Minister Datuk Lee Chee Leong told the Dewan Negara that there are
more than 25,000 Africans in Malaysia and 23,536 student visas were issued to
Africans.

Bernama
October 20, 2011

The then
Deputy Higher Education Minister Datuk Khaled Nordin contradicts the Deputy
Home Minister and said that there are 22,000 African students studying in
Malaysia.

From
Malay Mail, December 21, 2009

In 2008,
111, 805 Africans entered Malaysia both as tourist and students.

From
Bernama December 06, 2009

Dewan
Negara was informed that immigration statistics showed that 99,769 Africans
entered Malaysia between January and October 2002.

From Malay
Mail December 21, 2009

In 2001,
51, 383 Africans entered Malaysia

From
Bernama February 03, 2002

An
average of 300 Africans enter Malaysia monthly via Bukit Kayu Hitam according
to Malaysian Immigration.

In
January 2002, 372 Africans from countries such as Cameroon, Liberia, Mali,
Angola entered the country via Bukit Kayu Hitam.

So, from
the available statistics, there may be millions of Africans already in this
country and the majority of them may have no business to be here in the first
place. Remember the story in Utusan Malaysia December 18, 2012 which reported
about an African who arrived in Malaysia with only his clothes on his back and
then went on to build a RM400 million five star hotel back in Africa all from
money earned by cheating people in Malaysia.

Folks!
waves after waves of Africans maybe coming. Could the Home Office and the
Immigration Department care to inform the Malaysian public as to why Africans
from god forsaken countries can enter the country with ease. If the Immigration
officers, do not let the Africans in, then the police need not go hunting for
the Africans.

Anyway,
let us all keep our politics aside, push human rights aside and help our
enforcement personnel weed out the illegal immigrants. Just an advice to the
enforcement personnel – PLEASE APPREHEND
THE ILLEGAL AFRICANS

Friday, August 30, 2013

DEPUTY EDUCATION MINISTER P.KAMALANATHAN’S

NATIONAL INTERGRATION BULLSHIT

No one
can better carry BN’s and the government’s cojones than Deputy Education
Minister P.Kamalanathan. If Indians think that he being from MIC can be relied
on by the Indian community particularly in times of need, well … just forget
it.

Much has
been written about the SK Seri Pristina incident where Non-Muslim students were
made to eat in the school’s changing room/bathroom during the fasting month.

The incident has since then morphed into many
things with the latest being the Sungai Buluh police chief Junaidi Bujang
denying that their police officers had questioned the school children of SK
Seri Pristina and then a day after denying, admitting that the police merely
interviewed the school children.

Instead of
taking the bulls by the horns once and finding a resolvement and notallow the “eating in the changing room” issue
to fester on, out comes P.Kamalanathan who now claim that the Seri Pristina
incident is a “small problem” compared to other schools which have done well in
integrating its students. Then he reels out the statistics that out of 10,094
schools 90 to 95 per cent have done very well on national integration.

Really ?
I am not sure what weed he is smoking when he talks about national schools and
integrationbecause the Malaysia
Education Blueprint 2013-2025 makes startling revelation that the proportion of
Chinese students enrolled in SJKC increased from 92% to 96% in 2011 and the
shift for Indian students were even more dramatic, showing an increase from 47%
to 56%. So, pray may I ask how has the national integration come about in the
national schools.

Then
again, articulating intelligently is a premium with P.Kamalanathan when one
remembers that in an interview last year by the Sun and when questioned how was
the MIC helping Indian youth, he replied “in my constituency we have identified
240 Indian youths and sent them to a college
offering courses such as grass cutting, wiring…”

Until
then,the good people of Malaysia and
the Indians in particular had never even known that there was a college
offering grass cutting courses. Then again preparing Indian youths as grass
cutters might rank as a great achievement from a (Deputy) Education Minister to
whom Indians have entrusted their children’s future.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

AFRICANS KICKED OUT OF RIDZUAN CONDOMINIUM

This must be a first and may even be a start. Nevertheless, this may be start of things to come.

The majority ofRidzuan Condominium residents voted in their Annual General Meeting held on July 6 against renting their units to foreigners from the African continent whom they allege to have caused a lot of nuisance. Ridzuan Condominium is a 14 year old Condominium at Bandar Sunway near Petaling Jaya which started as a high-end condominium which property analysts now see a downward trend for its value in recent years.

According to the memo signed by the Chairman of the Joint Management Body of Ridzuan Condominium states that the presence of Africans have among others :

1created a lot of nuisance and problems to the community;

2caused the property prices to go down;

3made it difficult to rent out or sell their units to other prospective customers.

As such, it was resolved during the AGM that any resident who has an African tenant is to cancel the rental and to vacate them from their units within three months from the date of the AGM.

Although s.44(5) of the Strata Title Act 1985 states that no by-law can prohibit or restrict the lease of a building, giving the proprietor rights to individual unit owners, nevertheless s.44(2) of the Act states that the management corporation may by special resolution make additional by-laws for regulating the control, management, administration, use and enjoyment of the subdivided building.

The effect of this is that although the by-law can be challenged since the Strata Titles Act prevails over it, the ban against renting to Africans will remain until it is challenged in court.

I must congratulate the courageous act and decision of the residents of Ridzuan Condominium who have had it with the African menace. Hopefully, owners and residents of other condominiums and apartments will also take similar action as the residents of Ridzuan condominium. Just remember Ridzuan Condominium started as an upscale condominium and the presence of Africans there have brought down the value of the units.

Africans in Malaysia have grown from being a nuisance to becoming a menace and now to become a national security threat. Waves after waves of Africans are entering the country and it is strange that the Immigration authorities can be so easily hoodwinked by them. Isn’t it strange that Africans coming to Malaysia wanting to learn English language when their country’s curriculum is in English. Shouldn’t the Immigration authorities be circumspect with Africans wanting to come to study in “questionable” colleges and “questionable courses”.

I have written many times on the African menace and my articles was uploaded in esteemed blogs Outsyedthebox and even had a front page expose’ in the Malay Mail with the then Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, KohillanPillay commenting on my article. I also complimented how the almost 20,000 Korean community mostly nestled in an area in Ampang which has grown to be known as Little Korea are law abiding residents who hardly ever give any problems unlike the Africans and the Iranians,

The Malay Mail reported that Immigration Department records showed that a total of 79,352 Africans entered the country in 2012. The Immigration Department also issued 25,467 student visas to Africans in 2012 to study in public and private universities. I wonder how many African over-stayers and immigration offenders are still in Malaysia.

It is reported in today’s Star, that the starting this Sunday an estimated half a million illegal immigrants will be hunted down for the deportation. A multi-agency exercise involving 135,000 personnel involving the immigration department, police, armed forces, Rela, Civil Defence, National Registration Department and local councils. I wish all our brave men all the best and happy hunting. Let there be no let up against the Africans. Malaysians too can also play the part by informing the authorities of the Africans residing or hiding in their neighbourhoodor in their condominiums and apartments. Let us all help the country weed out the unwanted Africans.

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NORMAN FERNANDEZ is a lawyer in private practice with a passionate interest in Malaysian politics. "I write because I have something to say, one person speaking to many"- Pramoedya Ananta Toer.
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